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    612 results for "story":

    • Managing for Sustainable Ecosystems: Our Human Role
      ...and storms or sea-level rise. The EBM approach is place-based, and implementation must be mindful of local culture and history. The initial wake-up call to the Chesapeake Bay region was Tropical Storm Agnes in 1972 which caused a large disturbance...
    • Map It Out: from Babylonian Clay to GIS
      ...) There are vast numbers of tutorial videos, shapefiles, and data sets available online. References: Aber, J.S.,"Brief History of Maps and Cartography". 2008. http://academic.emporia.edu/aberjame/map/h_map/h_map.htm Thompson, Clive. "From Ptolemy...
    • Maps and Legends, Are We Really Understood?
      ...;meat and potatoes” of my map it is important to get it right. As we have seen earlier in class the data tells the story. In my map you might be able to see an attractive blue color for Chesapeake Bay, this is a grid. And those sometimes wei...
    • Maps should tell a story
      Maps should tell a story ... Ben Wahle The summer before I started fifth grade, my family took a road trip from Washington DC to Nova Scotia, Can...
    • Maryland releases a Greenhouse Gas Reduction Plan
      ...s state with a diverse, well-educated citizenry that has responded to many foreign and domestic threats throughout its history. It is entirely consistent with Maryland’s character that we respond to this newest threat with decisive and appro...
    • Maryland’s inaugural State of the Coast conference
      ...in 1983, with various multi-state agreements to reduce nutrient inputs. At the conference, I provided a brief timeline history of key activities associate with Chesapeake Bay. I based this on a public talk I gave at the Chesapeake Bay Maritime Mus...
    • Me and Bobby Twilley
      ...faculty member at Louisiana State University . Robert gave a wonderful seminar at Horn Point Laboratory , covering the history of coastal Louisiana wetland loss, Mississippi River diversions and provided the context for the 2012 Master Plan. The I...
    • Mediated realities and fish eyebrows: how we can effectively communicate science
      ...the reason why media is effective in bringing scientific knowledge to the public is the use of narratives and compelling storytelling. Facts aren’t just listed throughout the work; they are linked through story structure, cause and effect, t...
    • Medulla of the Report Card Success: Project Management and Workshop Planning
      ... and defining a clear understanding of what are you trying to accomplish will allow a report card to share the authentic story of a place with the local community and with the world....
    • MEES goes to Annapolis
      ...S alumni Led a session on making science easy on the eye Drawing chickens, tulips and thermometers upside down To make a story of those things that make fish frown. We heard the Bernie Fowler sneaker story An indicator of Chesapeake Bay clarity An...
    • Meet Saipan, one of America’s forgotten territories
      ...fying thresholds and scoring of indicators, and drafting the layout of the report card. We also talked a lot about the history and culture of Saipan and CNMI and the effects those things have had on coral reefs. Determining values and threats for...
    • Mississippi report card video
      ...on. This is accomplished by choosing the right images and sequence, carefully editing the narration, and having a strong storyline. The process used to develop this powerful video is 'storyboarding'. Conversant convened a series of conference call...
    • Modern cave drawings and story-telling using PowerPoint
      Modern cave drawings and story-telling using PowerPoint ... I made a presentation in the CERF 2015 session entitled "Successful Science Story-Telling f...
    • More Conversations with Randy Olson about the use of narratives in science
      ...son about the use of narratives in science ... James Shannon Building at the National Institutes of Health. I attended a Story Circles session at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland on 7 Feb 2019. My friend and colleague Randy...
    • Moreton Bay and Catchment
      ...s published in 1998. Moreton Bay and Catchment The book is divided into nine major sections covering the environmental history of the region, geology and geomorphology, catchment rivers and lakes, water quality, marine plants, marine animals, cora...
    • Moreton Bay Study: A Scientific Basis for the Healthy Waterways Campaign
      ...nd maintain momentum for the Healthy Waterways campaign. The book was initiated in the early part of 1999, with half-day storyboard sessions on the Healthy Waterways whiteboard. My co-author, Eva Abal , and I completed it in six months, relying on...
    • My four decade friendship with Susan Williams
    • My Introduction to Chesapeake Bay
      ...y before from classes and from general media, but I didn’t know how extensive it was, what animals lived there, or the history of it. To support my acclimation to East Coast topics, my family bought me a poster of Chesapeake Bay so I could referen...
    • Narrative literacy for science communication
      ...Handbook for Integrating Visual Elements ". The seventh principle is from a paper by M. Dahlstrom " Using narratives and storytelling to communicate science with nonexpert audiences ", published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Scienc...
    • Nature and Culture as Star-Crossed Lovers: Can we have one without the other?
    • New York Harbor NSF STEM Project Design Week, Part 2
      ...quo; Superhero Clubhouse ’. This one act musical, with original songs and script incorporated accurate science , history, as well as Shakespeare . It appeared to be a hit for both the students and adults. Students gather for burgers, hot dog...
    • Northern Australia floodplains research workshop in Brisbane
      ... under the National Environment Research Program Northern Hub (NERP Northern) . Our goal is to piece together the larger story being told by individual research components. As always, it was exciting to learn more about a new ecosystem - although...
    • Notes from Zanzibar; Communicating science workshop
      ...ural science groups and social science groups to scope out various East African coastal issues. We began to develop some story lines and mocked up storyboards so that we could produce science newsletters. Conceptionary in action with Maricela de l...
    • Now What? Life After the Launch of a Report Card
      ...ds to be addressed in the report card, via strategic messaging techniques, in order to make sure that everyone hears the story in the report card . Different strokes for different folks—creating convincing messages and compelling recommendat...
    • NPS Spotlight on Natural and Cultural Resources Workshop
      ...ural Resources and Cultural Resources in the NCR and covered a variety of interesting topics. Subjects ranged from the history of slavery in the Harper’s Ferry area, to variation in diets between coyotes and foxes at different NCR parks, the...